Every man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous HuxleyFor my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis BaconIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
VoltaireI used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.
Keanu ReevesLet us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark TwainLiterature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. LewisThere is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
George WashingtonLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen KellerI have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.
Stephen HawkingThe discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John SteinbeckIf the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.
Terry Pratchett‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Oscar WildeThe arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne WestwoodThe arts don’t exist in isolation.
David ByrneI had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.
Stephen HawkingAny reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James MadisonI think the definition of a book is changing.
Jeff BezosThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel JohnsonFor a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya AngelouAll I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.
Will RogersSome say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.
Erma BombeckIn books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas CarlyleCharlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?
Alice MunroRead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauWhat’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
Dave GrohlIf to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.
William ShakespeareBooks are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas AdamsI just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.
Alice Walker‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.
Mark TwainA book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDemocracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
Narendra ModiIt is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert HooverNo matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Taylor SwiftIf I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey HepburnHe had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac AsimovGlory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon BonaparteA boy’s story is the best that is ever told.
Charles DickensI’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
Tom BradyPeople who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
Jerry SeinfeldA bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry SeinfeldThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
Walt DisneyThe greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
Billy GrahamI never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar WildeAbove all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Golda MeirMany people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
Joyce MeyerIn the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
Terry PratchettIt’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.
Tom BradyThere is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest HemingwayOur society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.
Billy GrahamThey’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.
George BestEven those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise PascalI spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
Ray BradburyThe more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Stephen CoveyAfter you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
Ernest HemingwayThe story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret AtwoodThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle